The body of a discarded harmonium, a keyboard with 49 keys and associated sound objects.

IDIOPHONIUM 

A decomposed piano with its 88 keys becomes a new instrument by installing the mechanics of the piano on 30 wooden planks. They are 3 m long standing in the church. With the piano keys you can play now on buckets, long wires, saw blades, pots and pans, bells, gongs and so on. The visitors of the festival "The Blue Night" in Nürnberg were allowed to play on these instruments and a randomly and loud concert arosed in the Kartäuser church in the German National Museum.

MURMURATION

height of tripod: 93cm - height with objects 134cm - complete Ø127cm
The inner wheel can come to rotation by manual operation. Thereby the 12 objects get hit by a mallet. Bottle, bell, cake-pan, bicycle basket, shovel etc. result in a deafening noise.

NOISE GRINDER

Created after the coincidental meeting of a typewriter and a guitar on my workbench.
Built during an intensive four-week scholarship in the water tower of Geldern.

A cabin and a small desk with an integrated typewriter.
Using the typewriter keys, 44 sound objects can be set in motion by impact or friction. The person playing sits inside the sound capsule and is enveloped by the sounds she have produced herself, by the music of letters. The typophone is a total work of art that unites literature, music, poetry, handicraft and visual arts in one installation.

TYPOPHON

Some of the piano keys were removed from the piano and were combined with sound material which is spread in the room. The keys which stayed in the piano were linked with pots, pans, dishes, tins, wooden boxes, a drying rack, bells, milk cans etc. All these objects were hit by the small piano hammers which were pulled by strings.
The piano turns into a techno machine. During the festival there were several performances and the visitors were also allowed to try out the instrument.

THE WELL FRAGMENTED PIANO

From a tube system below the ceiling water drips out of 25 points at different speeds. In some places, the drops fall directly on sounding bodies such as tin box, wine glass, can, plastic canister, percussion basin, plastic bottle, tambourine clamp, bell of an alarm clock.
On other objects - e.g. guitar, violin, tambourine, triangle, wire mesh or resonance box - there are metal plates attached, which are set in vibration by the impinging drops and thereby make the corresponding instrument to sound. Visitors can move in space and intervene in the sound sequences by catching individual drops. 

THE DRIPPING ORCHESTRA

A transformed piano. Strings inside are removed. Then several objects like glases, buckets, bells, gongs, a guitar, metall objects of all kinds, plastic barrels and so on are placed on the walls and in every corner of the space. It is possible to play all this 88 sound objects with the piano. Every object is linked with a cord to its single key of the keyboard.

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